Thank you to our partners

We drive economic growth and prosperity for the people of NSW by bringing together business, government and global markets to deliver on the government’s strategic priorities and boost innovation, industry, investment and trade.

We are a global financial services group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, as well as advisory, and risk and capital solutions across debt, equity, financial markets and commodities.

Through unlocking capital and ideas, we create investment opportunities while helping facilitate economic activity, address unmet community needs and advance long-term prosperity.

Our purpose of empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future and principles of opportunity, accountability and integrity guide our actions.

Transforming Defense Capabilities with Advanced Technology. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril delivers cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the warfighter in months, not years. Today’s conflicts demand software-defined military technology that can be produced at hyper-scale & updated at speed. Unlike traditional defense contractors who focus exclusively on hardware, Anduril’s core product is Lattice: an autonomous sensemaking platform that connects and powers thousands of systems supporting real-world operations.

We are a global network of professional firms providing a full range of services to organisations across a wide range of industries, government, and not-for-profit sectors.

Our service areas are Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Deal Advisory & Infrastructure, Tax & Legal and KPMG Futures. In addition, KPMG Mid-Market & Private tailors its services to meet the unique needs of mid-sized, fast growing and family-owned businesses.

Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each KPMG member firm is responsible for its own obligations and liabilities. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.

In Australia, KPMG has a long tradition of professionalism and integrity, combined with our dynamic approach to advising clients in a digital-driven world. We have approximately 10,000 people, including more than 600 partners, with offices around the country.

Founded in late 2024, Cambridge Aerospace develops advanced air defence systems designed to deliver high performance at significantly lower cost than traditional solutions.

Its first product, Skyhammer, has a range of over 30 km and a top speed of 700 km/h, enabling it to intercept a wide range of aerial threats, including drones and low-speed missiles.

The company has scaled rapidly and now employs over 125 people in highly skilled roles. It is also expanding manufacturing capacity, with a second production facility currently in final fit-out to support accelerated delivery timelines.

Redefining maritime superiority by providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain.

Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.

The most strategic quantum technology company globally.

Manipulating quantum systems without destroying them requires a delicate hand – too delicate for any human to succeed.

At Q-CTRL, we build new forms of AI to access and control the quantum realm. Through our unique technology, pioneering research, and real demonstrations of quantum value we own the most profound wave of AI technology development.

AI for quantum gives us the power to put nature to work for us. It enables a future where new quantum computers power next-generation AI systems in a virtuous cycle. This convergence brings together multi-trillion-dollar opportunities to change the future of technology.

At the heart of Australia’s financial markets. Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) operates at the heart of the globally attractive, deep and liquid Australian financial markets. It was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in July 2006.

ASX is a listed exchange group that offers listings, trading, clearing, settlement, technical and information services, technology, data and other post-trade services.

It acts as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps to educate retail investors.

ASX operates markets for a wide range of asset classes including equities, fixed income, commodities and energy. As an integrated exchange, ASX’s activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows; trading and price discovery; central counterparty risk transfer; and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets.

ASX’s business is structured around four divisions: Listings, Markets, Technology & Data, and Securities & Payments.

Making Business Better

We believe great businesses can make a better world. Forward-thinking, innovative organizations can find the answers to today’s most difficult questions. That’s why, every day, we help them succeed.

Our bold and dynamic culture means we think big and act decisively. Because relationships are at the heart of everything we do for our clients and communities.

Let’s make business better. Together.

Haines Consulting Group is Australia’s leading advisory firm specialising in strategy, growth, and non-dilutive funding for high-growth companies, research institutions, and deep technology ventures. Headquartered in Melbourne, we work nationally and internationally with organisations to navigate complex funding environments and accelerate commercialisation.

We operate at the intersection of government policy, innovation, and business strategy, helping our clients secure major, competitive funding and align these opportunities with their broader commercial objectives.

Over the past decade, Haines Consulting Group has supported more than $1.5 billion in successful projects across Australia’s most competitive grant programs. Our experience spans sectors including medical technologies, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, defence capability, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and other strategically important industries.

Our approach is defined by precision, discipline, and a deep understanding of the funding landscape. We work closely with our clients to position them for success, ensuring every engagement is aligned with long-term growth, scalability, and impact.

The Australian Defence Investment Network (AUS-DIN) is built to Connect the Australian Defence and National Security Enterprise to Stimulate the Deployment of Trusted Capital.

Trusted Network
A strictly curated platform bringing together influential leaders from private capital, defence, and intelligence.

Tight Knit Community
Connect with top decision-makers and thought leaders in the defence and investment sectors, unlocking the best co-investment opportunities in the ecosystem.

Absolute Privacy
Operating under Chatham House rules, ensuring all conversations remain confidential.

Lobbying for the founders government should back.

Australia’s conduit between frontier founders and the state. We help make the companies of national consequence impossible to ignore.

Venture Affairs is Australia’s first and only lobbying firm dedicated exclusively to nation-shaping founders and early-stage technology.

Government is the largest customer, investor and regulator in the economy, yet the companies that will define Australia’s future are the least equipped to engage it. Incumbents have armies of lobbyists. The founders building frontier technology have had none, at exactly the moment it matters most.

We exist to close that gap, and to give those founders the relationships, representation and strategy that until now only large corporates could afford.